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Fix a deadlock on ftrace_regex_lock which happens when setting
an enable_event trigger on dynamic kprobe event as below.
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sh-2.05b# echo p vfs_symlink > kprobe_events
sh-2.05b# echo vfs_symlink:enable_event:kprobes:p_vfs_symlink_0 > set_ftrace_filter
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[ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
3.9.0+ #35 Not tainted
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sh/72 is trying to acquire lock:
(ftrace_regex_lock){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff810ba6c1>] ftrace_set_hash+0x81/0x1f0
but task is already holding lock:
(ftrace_regex_lock){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff810b7cbd>] ftrace_regex_write.isra.29.part.30+0x3d/0x220
other info that might help us debug this:
Possible unsafe locking scenario:
CPU0
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lock(ftrace_regex_lock);
lock(ftrace_regex_lock);
*** DEADLOCK ***
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To fix that, this introduces a finer regex_lock for each ftrace_ops.
ftrace_regex_lock is too big of a lock which protects all
filter/notrace_hash operations, but it doesn't need to be a global
lock after supporting multiple ftrace_ops because each ftrace_ops
has its own filter/notrace_hash.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130509054417.30398.84254.stgit@mhiramat-M0-7522
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
[ Added initialization flag and automate mutex initialization for
non ftrace.c ftrace_probes. ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Merge second batch of fixes from Andrew Morton:
- various misc bits
- some printk updates
- a new "SRAM" driver.
- MAINTAINERS updates
- the backlight driver queue
- checkpatch updates
- a few init/ changes
- a huge number of drivers/rtc changes
- fatfs updates
- some lib/idr.c work
- some renaming of the random driver interfaces
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (285 commits)
net: rename random32 to prandom
net/core: remove duplicate statements by do-while loop
net/core: rename random32() to prandom_u32()
net/netfilter: rename random32() to prandom_u32()
net/sched: rename random32() to prandom_u32()
net/sunrpc: rename random32() to prandom_u32()
scsi: rename random32() to prandom_u32()
lguest: rename random32() to prandom_u32()
uwb: rename random32() to prandom_u32()
video/uvesafb: rename random32() to prandom_u32()
mmc: rename random32() to prandom_u32()
drbd: rename random32() to prandom_u32()
kernel/: rename random32() to prandom_u32()
mm/: rename random32() to prandom_u32()
lib/: rename random32() to prandom_u32()
x86: rename random32() to prandom_u32()
x86: pageattr-test: remove srandom32 call
uuid: use prandom_bytes()
raid6test: use prandom_bytes()
sctp: convert sctp_assoc_set_id() to use idr_alloc_cyclic()
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup
Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:
- Fixes and a lot of cleanups. Locking cleanup is finally complete.
cgroup_mutex is no longer exposed to individual controlelrs which
used to cause nasty deadlock issues. Li fixed and cleaned up quite a
bit including long standing ones like racy cgroup_path().
- device cgroup now supports proper hierarchy thanks to Aristeu.
- perf_event cgroup now supports proper hierarchy.
- A new mount option "__DEVEL__sane_behavior" is added. As indicated
by the name, this option is to be used for development only at this
point and generates a warning message when used. Unfortunately,
cgroup interface currently has too many brekages and inconsistencies
to implement a consistent and unified hierarchy on top. The new flag
is used to collect the behavior changes which are necessary to
implement consistent unified hierarchy. It's likely that this flag
won't be used verbatim when it becomes ready but will be enabled
implicitly along with unified hierarchy.
The option currently disables some of broken behaviors in cgroup core
and also .use_hierarchy switch in memcg (will be routed through -mm),
which can be used to make very unusual hierarchy where nesting is
partially honored. It will also be used to implement hierarchy
support for blk-throttle which would be impossible otherwise without
introducing a full separate set of control knobs.
This is essentially versioning of interface which isn't very nice but
at this point I can't see any other options which would allow keeping
the interface the same while moving towards hierarchy behavior which
is at least somewhat sane. The planned unified hierarchy is likely
to require some level of adaptation from userland anyway, so I think
it'd be best to take the chance and update the interface such that
it's supportable in the long term.
Maintaining the existing interface does complicate cgroup core but
shouldn't put too much strain on individual controllers and I think
it'd be manageable for the foreseeable future. Maybe we'll be able
to drop it in a decade.
Fix up conflicts (including a semantic one adding a new #include to ppc
that was uncovered by header the file changes) as per Tejun.
* 'for-3.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: (45 commits)
cpuset: fix compile warning when CONFIG_SMP=n
cpuset: fix cpu hotplug vs rebuild_sched_domains() race
cpuset: use rebuild_sched_domains() in cpuset_hotplug_workfn()
cgroup: restore the call to eventfd->poll()
cgroup: fix use-after-free when umounting cgroupfs
cgroup: fix broken file xattrs
devcg: remove parent_cgroup.
memcg: force use_hierarchy if sane_behavior
cgroup: remove cgrp->top_cgroup
cgroup: introduce sane_behavior mount option
move cgroupfs_root to include/linux/cgroup.h
cgroup: convert cgroupfs_root flag bits to masks and add CGRP_ prefix
cgroup: make cgroup_path() not print double slashes
Revert "cgroup: remove bind() method from cgroup_subsys."
perf: make perf_event cgroup hierarchical
cgroup: implement cgroup_is_descendant()
cgroup: make sure parent won't be destroyed before its children
cgroup: remove bind() method from cgroup_subsys.
devcg: remove broken_hierarchy tag
cgroup: remove cgroup_lock_is_held()
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Pull workqueue updates from Tejun Heo:
"A lot of activities on workqueue side this time. The changes achieve
the followings.
- WQ_UNBOUND workqueues - the workqueues which are per-cpu - are
updated to be able to interface with multiple backend worker pools.
This involved a lot of churning but the end result seems actually
neater as unbound workqueues are now a lot closer to per-cpu ones.
- The ability to interface with multiple backend worker pools are
used to implement unbound workqueues with custom attributes.
Currently the supported attributes are the nice level and CPU
affinity. It may be expanded to include cgroup association in
future. The attributes can be specified either by calling
apply_workqueue_attrs() or through /sys/bus/workqueue/WQ_NAME/* if
the workqueue in question is exported through sysfs.
The backend worker pools are keyed by the actual attributes and
shared by any workqueues which share the same attributes. When
attributes of a workqueue are changed, the workqueue binds to the
worker pool with the specified attributes while leaving the work
items which are already executing in its previous worker pools
alone.
This allows converting custom worker pool implementations which
want worker attribute tuning to use workqueues. The writeback pool
is already converted in block tree and there are a couple others
are likely to follow including btrfs io workers.
- WQ_UNBOUND's ability to bind to multiple worker pools is also used
to make it NUMA-aware. Because there's no association between work
item issuer and the specific worker assigned to execute it, before
this change, using unbound workqueue led to unnecessary cross-node
bouncing and it couldn't be helped by autonuma as it requires tasks
to have implicit node affinity and workers are assigned randomly.
After these changes, an unbound workqueue now binds to multiple
NUMA-affine worker pools so that queued work items are executed in
the same node. This is turned on by default but can be disabled
system-wide or for individual workqueues.
Crypto was requesting NUMA affinity as encrypting data across
different nodes can contribute noticeable overhead and doing it
per-cpu was too limiting for certain cases and IO throughput could
be bottlenecked by one CPU being fully occupied while others have
idle cycles.
While the new features required a lot of changes including
restructuring locking, it didn't complicate the execution paths much.
The unbound workqueue handling is now closer to per-cpu ones and the
new features are implemented by simply associating a workqueue with
different sets of backend worker pools without changing queue,
execution or flush paths.
As such, even though the amount of change is very high, I feel
relatively safe in that it isn't likely to cause subtle issues with
basic correctness of work item execution and handling. If something
is wrong, it's likely to show up as being associated with worker pools
with the wrong attributes or OOPS while workqueue attributes are being
changed or during CPU hotplug.
While this creates more backend worker pools, it doesn't add too many
more workers unless, of course, there are many workqueues with unique
combinations of attributes. Assuming everything else is the same,
NUMA awareness costs an extra worker pool per NUMA node with online
CPUs.
There are also a couple things which are being routed outside the
workqueue tree.
- block tree pulled in workqueue for-3.10 so that writeback worker
pool can be converted to unbound workqueue with sysfs control
exposed. This simplifies the code, makes writeback workers
NUMA-aware and allows tuning nice level and CPU affinity via sysfs.
- The conversion to workqueue means that there's no 1:1 association
between a specific worker, which makes writeback folks unhappy as
they want to be able to tell which filesystem caused a problem from
backtrace on systems with many filesystems mounted. This is
resolved by allowing work items to set debug info string which is
printed when the task is dumped. As this change involves unifying
implementations of dump_stack() and friends in arch codes, it's
being routed through Andrew's -mm tree."
* 'for-3.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: (84 commits)
workqueue: use kmem_cache_free() instead of kfree()
workqueue: avoid false negative WARN_ON() in destroy_workqueue()
workqueue: update sysfs interface to reflect NUMA awareness and a kernel param to disable NUMA affinity
workqueue: implement NUMA affinity for unbound workqueues
workqueue: introduce put_pwq_unlocked()
workqueue: introduce numa_pwq_tbl_install()
workqueue: use NUMA-aware allocation for pool_workqueues
workqueue: break init_and_link_pwq() into two functions and introduce alloc_unbound_pwq()
workqueue: map an unbound workqueues to multiple per-node pool_workqueues
workqueue: move hot fields of workqueue_struct to the end
workqueue: make workqueue->name[] fixed len
workqueue: add workqueue->unbound_attrs
workqueue: determine NUMA node of workers accourding to the allowed cpumask
workqueue: drop 'H' from kworker names of unbound worker pools
workqueue: add wq_numa_tbl_len and wq_numa_possible_cpumask[]
workqueue: move pwq_pool_locking outside of get/put_unbound_pool()
workqueue: fix memory leak in apply_workqueue_attrs()
workqueue: fix unbound workqueue attrs hashing / comparison
workqueue: fix race condition in unbound workqueue free path
workqueue: remove pwq_lock which is no longer used
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq
Pull async update from Tejun Heo:
"This contains three cleanup patches for async from Lai. All three
patches are essentially cosmetic."
* 'for-3.10-async' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
async: rename and redefine async_func_ptr
async: remove unused @node from struct async_domain
async: simplify lowest_in_progress()
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Commit 496f2f93b1cc ("random32: rename random32 to prandom") renamed
random32() and srandom32() to prandom_u32() and prandom_seed()
respectively.
net_random() and net_srandom() need to be redefined with prandom_* in
order to finish the naming transition.
While I'm at it, enclose macro argument of net_srandom() with parenthesis.
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Cc: John McCutchan <john@johnmccutchan.com>
Cc: Robert Love <rlove@rlove.org>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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As Tejun points out, there are several users of the IDR facility that
attempt to use it in a cyclic fashion. These users are likely to see
-ENOSPC errors after the counter wraps one or more times however.
This patchset adds a new idr_alloc_cyclic routine and converts several
of these users to it. Many of these users are in obscure parts of the
kernel, and I don't have a good way to test some of them. The change is
pretty straightforward though, so hopefully it won't be an issue.
There is one other cyclic user of idr_alloc that I didn't touch in
ipc/util.c. That one is doing some strange stuff that I didn't quite
understand, but it looks like it should probably be converted later
somehow.
This patch:
Thus spake Tejun Heo:
Ooh, BTW, the cyclic allocation is broken. It's prone to -ENOSPC
after the first wraparound. There are several cyclic users in the
kernel and I think it probably would be best to implement cyclic
support in idr.
This patch does that by adding new idr_alloc_cyclic function that such
users in the kernel can use. With this, there's no need for a caller to
keep track of the last value used as that's now tracked internally. This
should prevent the ENOSPC problems that can hit when the "last allocated"
counter exceeds INT_MAX.
Later patches will convert existing cyclic users to the new interface.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace.org>
Cc: Jack Morgenstein <jackm@dev.mellanox.co.il>
Cc: John McCutchan <john@johnmccutchan.com>
Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>
Cc: Robert Love <rlove@rlove.org>
Cc: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
Cc: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>
Cc: Tom Tucker <tom@opengridcomputing.com>
Cc: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Define two nfs export_operation structures,one for 'stale_rw' mounts and
the other for 'nostale_ro'. The latter uses i_pos as a basis for encoding
and decoding file handles.
Also, assign i_pos to kstat->ino. The logic for rebuilding the inode is
added in the subsequent patches.
Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Ravishankar N <ravi.n1@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Amit Sahrawat <a.sahrawat@samsung.com>
Acked-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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devm_rtc_device_register()
Other devm_* APIs use 'struct device *dev' as the first argument. Thus,
in order to sync with other devm_* functions, struct device is used as
the first argument for devm_rtc_device_register().
Signed-off-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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These functions allow the driver core to automatically clean up any
allocation made by rtc drivers. Thus it simplifies the error paths.
Signed-off-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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There are at least two users of isodigit(). Let's make it a public
function of ctype.h.
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Signed-off-by: Matus Ujhelyi <matus.ujhelyi@streamunlimited.com>
Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The 'load_new_rom_data' was used for checking whether new ROM data should
be updated or not.
However, we can decide it with 'size_program' data. If the size is
greater than 0, it means updating ROM area is required. Otherwise, the
default ROM data will be used. Therefore, this duplicate platform data
can be removed.
Signed-off-by: Milo(Woogyom) Kim <milo.kim@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Valid range of the brightness is from 0 to 255, so initial brightness
is changed from integer to u8.
Signed-off-by: Milo(Woogyom) Kim <milo.kim@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The brightness of LP855x devices is controlled by I2C register or PWM
input . This mode was selected through the platform data, but it can be
chosen by the driver internally without platform data configuration.
How to decide the control mode:
If the PWM period has specific value, the mode is PWM input.
On the other hand, the mode is register-based.
This mode selection is done on the _probe().
Move 'mode' from a header file to the driver private data structure,
'lp855 x'. And correlated code was replaced.
Signed-off-by: Milo(Woogyom) Kim <milo.kim@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Configurable data, backlight device name is set to constant character type.
Signed-off-by: Milo(Woogyom) Kim <milo.kim@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Platform LCD devices may need to do some device-specific initialization
before they can be used (regulator or GPIO setup, for example), but
currently the driver does not support any way of doing this. This patch
adds a probe() callback to plat_lcd_data which platform LCD devices can
set to indicate that device-specific initialization is needed.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Bresticker <abrestic@chromium.org>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Cc: Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de>
Reviewed-by: Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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printk.h uses va_list but doesn't include stdarg.h. Hence printk.h is
unusable unless its includer has already included kernel.h (which includes
stdarg.h).
Remove the dependency by including stdarg.h in printk.h
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The early console implementations are the same all over the place. Move
the print function to kernel/printk and get rid of the copies.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: arch/mips/kernel/early_printk.c needs kernel.h for va_list]
[paul.gortmaker@windriver.com: sh4: make the bios early console support depend on EARLY_PRINTK]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Commit 7ff9554bb578 ("printk: convert byte-buffer to variable-length
record buffer") removed start and end parameters from
call_console_drivers, but those parameters still exist in
include/trace/events/printk.h.
Without start and end parameters handling, printk tracing became more
simple as: trace_console(text, len);
Signed-off-by: zhangwei(Jovi) <jovi.zhangwei@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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__builtin_object_size is known to be broken on gcc 4.6+.
See http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48880 for details.
This causes unnecssary build warnings and errors such as
In function 'copy_from_user', inlined from 'sb16_copy_from_user'
at sound/oss/sb_audio.c:878:22:
arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_32.h:211:26: error: call to 'copy_from_user_overflow'
declared with attribute error: copy_from_user() buffer size is not provably correct
make[3]: [sound/oss/sb_audio.o] Error 1 (ignored)
Disable it where broken.
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This patch depends on "genalloc: add devres support, allow to find a
managed pool by device", which provides the of_get_named_gen_pool and
dev_get_gen_pool functions.
Signed-off-by: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>
Acked-by: Javier Martin <javier.martin@vista-silicon.com>
Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Dong Aisheng <dong.aisheng@linaro.org>
Cc: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@freescale.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Huang Shijie <shijie8@gmail.com>
Cc: Matt Porter <mporter@ti.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>
Cc: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This patch adds three exported functions to lib/genalloc.c:
devm_gen_pool_create, dev_get_gen_pool, and of_get_named_gen_pool.
devm_gen_pool_create is a managed version of gen_pool_create that keeps
track of the pool via devres and allows the management code to
automatically destroy it after device removal.
dev_get_gen_pool retrieves the gen_pool for a given device, if it was
created with devm_gen_pool_create, using devres_find.
of_get_named_gen_pool retrieves the gen_pool for a given device node and
property name, where the property must contain a phandle pointing to a
platform device node. The corresponding platform device is then fed into
dev_get_gen_pool and the resulting gen_pool is returned.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: make the of_get_named_gen_pool() stub static, fixing a zillion link errors]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: squish "struct device declared inside parameter list" warning]
Signed-off-by: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>
Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Tested-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@freescale.com>
Cc: Matt Porter <mporter@ti.com>
Cc: Dong Aisheng <dong.aisheng@linaro.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Javier Martin <javier.martin@vista-silicon.com>
Cc: Huang Shijie <shijie8@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Merge first batch of fixes from Andrew Morton:
- A couple of kthread changes
- A few minor audit patches
- A number of fbdev patches. Florian remains AWOL so I'm picking up
some of these.
- A few kbuild things
- ocfs2 updates
- Almost all of the MM queue
(And in the meantime, I already have the second big batch from Andrew
pending in my mailbox ;^)
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (149 commits)
memcg: take reference before releasing rcu_read_lock
mem hotunplug: fix kfree() of bootmem memory
mmKconfig: add an option to disable bounce
mm, nobootmem: do memset() after memblock_reserve()
mm, nobootmem: clean-up of free_low_memory_core_early()
fs/buffer.c: remove unnecessary init operation after allocating buffer_head.
numa, cpu hotplug: change links of CPU and node when changing node number by onlining CPU
mm: fix memory_hotplug.c printk format warning
mm: swap: mark swap pages writeback before queueing for direct IO
swap: redirty page if page write fails on swap file
mm, memcg: give exiting processes access to memory reserves
thp: fix huge zero page logic for page with pfn == 0
memcg: avoid accessing memcg after releasing reference
fs: fix fsync() error reporting
memblock: fix missing comment of memblock_insert_region()
mm: Remove unused parameter of pages_correctly_reserved()
firmware, memmap: fix firmware_map_entry leak
mm/vmstat: add note on safety of drain_zonestat
mm: thp: add split tail pages to shrink page list in page reclaim
mm: allow for outstanding swap writeback accounting
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Pull clock framework update from Michael Turquette:
"The common clock framework changes for 3.10 include many fixes for
existing platforms, as well as adoption of the framework by new
platforms and devices.
Some long-needed fixes to the core framework are here as well as new
features such as improved initialization of clocks from DT as well as
framework reentrancy for nested clock operations."
* tag 'clk-for-linus-3.10' of git://git.linaro.org/people/mturquette/linux: (44 commits)
clk: add clk_ignore_unused option to keep boot clocks on
clk: ux500: fix mismatched types
clk: vexpress: Add separate SP810 driver
clk: si5351: make clk-si5351 depend on CONFIG_OF
clk: export __clk_get_flags for modular clock providers
clk: vt8500: Missing breaks in vtwm_pll_round_rate/_set_rate.
clk: sunxi: Unify oscillator clock
clk: composite: allow fixed rates & fixed dividers
clk: composite: rename 'div' references to 'rate'
clk: add si5351 i2c common clock driver
clk: add device tree fixed-factor-clock binding support
clk: Properly handle notifier return values
clk: ux500: abx500: Define clock tree for ab850x
clk: ux500: Add support for sysctrl clocks
clk: mvebu: Fix valid value range checking for cpu_freq_select
clk: Fixup locking issues for clk_set_parent
clk: Fixup errorhandling for clk_set_parent
clk: Restructure code for __clk_reparent
clk: sunxi: drop an unnecesary kmalloc
clk: sunxi: drop CLK_IGNORE_UNUSED
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/spi
Pull spi updates from Mark Brown:
"A fairly quiet release for SPI, mainly driver work. A few highlights:
- Supports bits per word compatibility checking in the core.
- Allow use of the IP used in Freescale SPI controllers outside
Freescale SoCs.
- DMA support for the Atmel SPI driver.
- New drivers for the BCM2835 and Tegra114"
* tag 'spi-v3.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/spi: (68 commits)
spi-topcliff-pch: fix to use list_for_each_entry_safe() when delete list items
spi-topcliff-pch: missing platform_driver_unregister() on error in pch_spi_init()
ARM: dts: add pinctrl property for spi node for atmel SoC
ARM: dts: add spi nodes for the atmel boards
ARM: dts: add spi nodes for atmel SoC
ARM: at91: add clocks for spi dt entries
spi/spi-atmel: add dmaengine support
spi/spi-atmel: add flag to controller data for lock operations
spi/spi-atmel: add physical base address
spi/sirf: fix MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE
MAINTAINERS: Add git repository and update my address
spi/s3c64xx: Check for errors in dmaengine prepare_transfer()
spi/s3c64xx: Fix non-dmaengine usage
spi: omap2-mcspi: fix error return code in omap2_mcspi_probe()
spi/s3c64xx: let device core setup the default pin configuration
MAINTAINERS: Update Grant's email address and maintainership
spi: omap2-mcspi: Fix transfers if DMADEVICES is not set
spi: s3c64xx: move to generic dmaengine API
spi-gpio: init CS before spi_bitbang_setup()
spi: spi-mpc512x-psc: let transmiter/receiver enabled when in xfer loop
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/regulator
Pull regulator updates from Mark Brown:
"The diffstat and changelog here is dominated by Lee Jones' heroic
efforts to sync the ab8500 driver that's been maintained out of tree
with mainline (plus Axel's cleanup work on the results) but there's a
few other things here:
- Axel Lin added regulator_map_voltage_ascend() optimising a common
pattern for drivers using the core code.
- Milo Kim tought the regulator core to handle regulators sharing an
enable GPIO, avoiding the need to do hacks to support such systems.
- Andrew Bresticker added code to handle missing supplies for
regulators more sensibly for device tree systems, reducing the need
for stubbing there.
plus the usual batch of driver specific updates and fixes"
* tag 'regulator-v3.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/regulator: (152 commits)
regulator: mc13892: Fix MC13892_SWITCHERS0_SWxHI bit in set_voltage_sel
regulator: Remove NULL test before calling regulator_unregister()
regulator: mc13783: Add device tree probe support
regulator: mc13xxx: Add warning of incorrect names of regulators
regulator: max77686: Don't update max77686->opmode if update register fails
regulator: max8952: Add missing config.of_node setting for regulator register
regulator: ab3100: Fix regulator register error handling
regulator: tps6524x: Use regulator_map_voltage_ascend
regulator: lp8788-buck: Use regulator_map_voltage_ascend
regulator: lp872x: Use regulator_map_voltage_ascend
regulator: mc13892: Use regulator_map_voltage_ascend for mc13892_sw_regulator_ops
regulator: tps65023: Use regulator_map_voltage_ascend
regulator: tps65023: Merge tps65020 ldo1 and ldo2 vsel table
regulator: tps6507x: Use regulator_map_voltage_ascend
regulator: mc13892: Fix MC13892_SWITCHERS0_SWxHI bit in set_voltage_sel
regulator: ab3100: device tree support
regulator: ab3100: refactor probe to use IDs
regulator: max8973: Don't override control1 variable when set ramp delay bits
regulator: tps80031: Convert tps80031_dcdc_ops to [get|set]_voltage_sel_regmap
regulator: tps80031: Fix LDO2 track mode for TPS80031 or TPS80032-ES1.0
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/regmap
Pull regmap updates from Mark Brown:
"In user visible terms just a couple of enhancements here, though there
was a moderate amount of refactoring required in order to support the
register cache sync performance improvements.
- Support for block and asynchronous I/O during register cache
syncing; this provides a use case dependant performance
improvement.
- Additional debugfs information on the memory consuption and
register set"
* tag 'regmap-v3.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/regmap: (23 commits)
regmap: don't corrupt work buffer in _regmap_raw_write()
regmap: cache: Fix format specifier in dev_dbg
regmap: cache: Make regcache_sync_block_raw static
regmap: cache: Write consecutive registers in a single block write
regmap: cache: Split raw and non-raw syncs
regmap: cache: Factor out block sync
regmap: cache: Factor out reg_present support from rbtree cache
regmap: cache: Use raw I/O to sync rbtrees if we can
regmap: core: Provide regmap_can_raw_write() operation
regmap: cache: Provide a get address of value operation
regmap: Cut down on the average # of nodes in the rbtree cache
regmap: core: Make raw write available to regcache
regmap: core: Warn on invalid operation combinations
regmap: irq: Clarify error message when we fail to request primary IRQ
regmap: rbtree Expose total memory consumption in the rbtree debugfs entry
regmap: debugfs: Add a registers `range' file
regmap: debugfs: Simplify calculation of `c->max_reg'
regmap: cache: Store caches in native register format where possible
regmap: core: Split out in place value parsing
regmap: cache: Use regcache_get_value() to check if we updated
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Remove unused argument and make function static, because there is no user
outside of nobootmem.c
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jiang Liu <liuj97@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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In page reclaim, huge page is split. split_huge_page() adds tail pages
to LRU list. Since we are reclaiming a huge page, it's better we
reclaim all subpages of the huge page instead of just the head page.
This patch adds split tail pages to shrink page list so the tail pages
can be reclaimed soon.
Before this patch, run a swap workload:
thp_fault_alloc 3492
thp_fault_fallback 608
thp_collapse_alloc 6
thp_collapse_alloc_failed 0
thp_split 916
With this patch:
thp_fault_alloc 4085
thp_fault_fallback 16
thp_collapse_alloc 90
thp_collapse_alloc_failed 0
thp_split 1272
fallback allocation is reduced a lot.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix CONFIG_SWAP=n build]
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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To prevent flooding the swap device with writebacks, frontswap backends
need to count and limit the number of outstanding writebacks. The
incrementing of the counter can be done before the call to
__swap_writepage(). However, the caller must receive a notification
when the writeback completes in order to decrement the counter.
To achieve this functionality, this patch modifies __swap_writepage() to
take the bio completion callback function as an argument.
end_swap_bio_write(), the normal bio completion function, is also made
non-static so that code doing the accounting can call it after the
accounting is done.
There should be no behavioural change to existing code.
Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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swap_writepage() is currently where frontswap hooks into the swap write
path to capture pages with the frontswap_store() function. However, if
a frontswap backend wants to "resume" the writeback of a page to the
swap device, it can't call swap_writepage() as the page will simply
reenter the backend.
This patch separates swap_writepage() into a top and bottom half, the
bottom half named __swap_writepage() to allow a frontswap backend, like
zswap, to resume writeback beyond the frontswap_store() hook.
__add_to_swap_cache() is also made non-static so that the page for which
writeback is to be resumed can be added to the swap cache.
Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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With this patch userland applications that want to maintain the
interactivity/memory allocation cost can use the pressure level
notifications. The levels are defined like this:
The "low" level means that the system is reclaiming memory for new
allocations. Monitoring this reclaiming activity might be useful for
maintaining cache level. Upon notification, the program (typically
"Activity Manager") might analyze vmstat and act in advance (i.e.
prematurely shutdown unimportant services).
The "medium" level means that the system is experiencing medium memory
pressure, the system might be making swap, paging out active file
caches, etc. Upon this event applications may decide to further analyze
vmstat/zoneinfo/memcg or internal memory usage statistics and free any
resources that can be easily reconstructed or re-read from a disk.
The "critical" level means that the system is actively thrashing, it is
about to out of memory (OOM) or even the in-kernel OOM killer is on its
way to trigger. Applications should do whatever they can to help the
system. It might be too late to consult with vmstat or any other
statistics, so it's advisable to take an immediate action.
The events are propagated upward until the event is handled, i.e. the
events are not pass-through. Here is what this means: for example you
have three cgroups: A->B->C. Now you set up an event listener on
cgroups A, B and C, and suppose group C experiences some pressure. In
this situation, only group C will receive the notification, i.e. groups
A and B will not receive it. This is done to avoid excessive
"broadcasting" of messages, which disturbs the system and which is
especially bad if we are low on memory or thrashing. So, organize the
cgroups wisely, or propagate the events manually (or, ask us to
implement the pass-through events, explaining why would you need them.)
Performance wise, the memory pressure notifications feature itself is
lightweight and does not require much of bookkeeping, in contrast to the
rest of memcg features. Unfortunately, as of current memcg
implementation, pages accounting is an inseparable part and cannot be
turned off. The good news is that there are some efforts[1] to improve
the situation; plus, implementing the same, fully API-compatible[2]
interface for CONFIG_MEMCG=n case (e.g. embedded) is also a viable
option, so it will not require any changes on the userland side.
[1] http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.cgroups/6291
[2] http://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/21/454
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix CONFIG_CGROPUPS=n warnings]
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Leonid Moiseichuk <leonid.moiseichuk@nokia.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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__remove_pages() is only necessary for CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE. PowerPC
pseries will return -EOPNOTSUPP if unsupported.
Adding an #ifdef causes several other functions it depends on to also
become unnecessary, which saves in .text when disabled (it's disabled in
most defconfigs besides powerpc, including x86). remove_memory_block()
becomes static since it is not referenced outside of
drivers/base/memory.c.
Build tested on x86 and powerpc with CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE both enabled
and disabled.
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Add release_mem_region_adjustable(), which releases a requested region
from a currently busy memory resource. This interface adjusts the
matched memory resource accordingly even if the requested region does
not match exactly but still fits into.
This new interface is intended for memory hot-delete. During bootup,
memory resources are inserted from the boot descriptor table, such as
EFI Memory Table and e820. Each memory resource entry usually covers
the whole contigous memory range. Memory hot-delete request, on the
other hand, may target to a particular range of memory resource, and its
size can be much smaller than the whole contiguous memory. Since the
existing release interfaces like __release_region() require a requested
region to be exactly matched to a resource entry, they do not allow a
partial resource to be released.
This new interface is restrictive (i.e. release under certain
conditions), which is consistent with other release interfaces,
__release_region() and __release_resource(). Additional release
conditions, such as an overlapping region to a resource entry, can be
supported after they are confirmed as valid cases.
There is no change to the existing interfaces since their restriction is
valid for I/O resources.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use GFP_ATOMIC under write_lock()]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: switch back to GFP_KERNEL, less buggily]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded and wrong kfree(), per Toshi]
Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Reviewed-by : Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Cc: T Makphaibulchoke <tmac@hp.com>
Cc: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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CONFIG_HOTPLUG is going away as an option, cleanup CONFIG_HOTPLUG
ifdefs in mm files.
Signed-off-by: Yijing Wang <wangyijing@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Add an admin_reserve_kbytes knob to allow admins to change the hardcoded
memory reserve to something other than 3%, which may be multiple
gigabytes on large memory systems. Only about 8MB is necessary to
enable recovery in the default mode, and only a few hundred MB are
required even when overcommit is disabled.
This affects OVERCOMMIT_GUESS and OVERCOMMIT_NEVER.
admin_reserve_kbytes is initialized to min(3% free pages, 8MB)
I arrived at 8MB by summing the RSS of sshd or login, bash, and top.
Please see first patch in this series for full background, motivation,
testing, and full changelog.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: make init_admin_reserve() static]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Shewmaker <agshew@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Add user_reserve_kbytes knob.
Limit the growth of the memory reserved for other user processes to
min(3% current process size, user_reserve_pages). Only about 8MB is
necessary to enable recovery in the default mode, and only a few hundred
MB are required even when overcommit is disabled.
user_reserve_pages defaults to min(3% free pages, 128MB)
I arrived at 128MB by taking the max VSZ of sshd, login, bash, and top ...
then adding the RSS of each.
This only affects OVERCOMMIT_NEVER mode.
Background
1. user reserve
__vm_enough_memory reserves a hardcoded 3% of the current process size for
other applications when overcommit is disabled. This was done so that a
user could recover if they launched a memory hogging process. Without the
reserve, a user would easily run into a message such as:
bash: fork: Cannot allocate memory
2. admin reserve
Additionally, a hardcoded 3% of free memory is reserved for root in both
overcommit 'guess' and 'never' modes. This was intended to prevent a
scenario where root-cant-log-in and perform recovery operations.
Note that this reserve shrinks, and doesn't guarantee a useful reserve.
Motivation
The two hardcoded memory reserves should be updated to account for current
memory sizes.
Also, the admin reserve would be more useful if it didn't shrink too much.
When the current code was originally written, 1GB was considered
"enterprise". Now the 3% reserve can grow to multiple GB on large memory
systems, and it only needs to be a few hundred MB at most to enable a user
or admin to recover a system with an unwanted memory hogging process.
I've found that reducing these reserves is especially beneficial for a
specific type of application load:
* single application system
* one or few processes (e.g. one per core)
* allocating all available memory
* not initializing every page immediately
* long running
I've run scientific clusters with this sort of load. A long running job
sometimes failed many hours (weeks of CPU time) into a calculation. They
weren't initializing all of their memory immediately, and they weren't
using calloc, so I put systems into overcommit 'never' mode. These
clusters run diskless and have no swap.
However, with the current reserves, a user wishing to allocate as much
memory as possible to one process may be prevented from using, for
example, almost 2GB out of 32GB.
The effect is less, but still significant when a user starts a job with
one process per core. I have repeatedly seen a set of processes
requesting the same amount of memory fail because one of them could not
allocate the amount of memory a user would expect to be able to allocate.
For example, Message Passing Interfce (MPI) processes, one per core. And
it is similar for other parallel programming frameworks.
Changing this reserve code will make the overcommit never mode more useful
by allowing applications to allocate nearly all of the available memory.
Also, the new admin_reserve_kbytes will be safer than the current behavior
since the hardcoded 3% of available memory reserve can shrink to something
useless in the case where applications have grabbed all available memory.
Risks
* "bash: fork: Cannot allocate memory"
The downside of the first patch-- which creates a tunable user reserve
that is only used in overcommit 'never' mode--is that an admin can set
it so low that a user may not be able to kill their process, even if
they already have a shell prompt.
Of course, a user can get in the same predicament with the current 3%
reserve--they just have to launch processes until 3% becomes negligible.
* root-cant-log-in problem
The second patch, adding the tunable rootuser_reserve_pages, allows
the admin to shoot themselves in the foot by setting it too small. They
can easily get the system into a state where root-can't-log-in.
However, the new admin_reserve_kbytes will be safer than the current
behavior since the hardcoded 3% of available memory reserve can shrink
to something useless in the case where applications have grabbed all
available memory.
Alternatives
* Memory cgroups provide a more flexible way to limit application memory.
Not everyone wants to set up cgroups or deal with their overhead.
* We could create a fourth overcommit mode which provides smaller reserves.
The size of useful reserves may be drastically different depending
on the whether the system is embedded or enterprise.
* Force users to initialize all of their memory or use calloc.
Some users don't want/expect the system to overcommit when they malloc.
Overcommit 'never' mode is for this scenario, and it should work well.
The new user and admin reserve tunables are simple to use, with low
overhead compared to cgroups. The patches preserve current behavior where
3% of memory is less than 128MB, except that the admin reserve doesn't
shrink to an unusable size under pressure. The code allows admins to tune
for embedded and enterprise usage.
FAQ
* How is the root-cant-login problem addressed?
What happens if admin_reserve_pages is set to 0?
Root is free to shoot themselves in the foot by setting
admin_reserve_kbytes too low.
On x86_64, the minimum useful reserve is:
8MB for overcommit 'guess'
128MB for overcommit 'never'
admin_reserve_pages defaults to min(3% free memory, 8MB)
So, anyone switching to 'never' mode needs to adjust
admin_reserve_pages.
* How do you calculate a minimum useful reserve?
A user or the admin needs enough memory to login and perform
recovery operations, which includes, at a minimum:
sshd or login + bash (or some other shell) + top (or ps, kill, etc.)
For overcommit 'guess', we can sum resident set sizes (RSS)
because we only need enough memory to handle what the recovery
programs will typically use. On x86_64 this is about 8MB.
For overcommit 'never', we can take the max of their virtual sizes (VSZ)
and add the sum of their RSS. We use VSZ instead of RSS because mode
forces us to ensure we can fulfill all of the requested memory allocations--
even if the programs only use a fraction of what they ask for.
On x86_64 this is about 128MB.
When swap is enabled, reserves are useful even when they are as
small as 10MB, regardless of overcommit mode.
When both swap and overcommit are disabled, then the admin should
tune the reserves higher to be absolutley safe. Over 230MB each
was safest in my testing.
* What happens if user_reserve_pages is set to 0?
Note, this only affects overcomitt 'never' mode.
Then a user will be able to allocate all available memory minus
admin_reserve_kbytes.
However, they will easily see a message such as:
"bash: fork: Cannot allocate memory"
And they won't be able to recover/kill their application.
The admin should be able to recover the system if
admin_reserve_kbytes is set appropriately.
* What's the difference between overcommit 'guess' and 'never'?
"Guess" allows an allocation if there are enough free + reclaimable
pages. It has a hardcoded 3% of free pages reserved for root.
"Never" allows an allocation if there is enough swap + a configurable
percentage (default is 50) of physical RAM. It has a hardcoded 3% of
free pages reserved for root, like "Guess" mode. It also has a
hardcoded 3% of the current process size reserved for additional
applications.
* Why is overcommit 'guess' not suitable even when an app eventually
writes to every page? It takes free pages, file pages, available
swap pages, reclaimable slab pages into consideration. In other words,
these are all pages available, then why isn't overcommit suitable?
Because it only looks at the present state of the system. It
does not take into account the memory that other applications have
malloced, but haven't initialized yet. It overcommits the system.
Test Summary
There was little change in behavior in the default overcommit 'guess'
mode with swap enabled before and after the patch. This was expected.
Systems run most predictably (i.e. no oom kills) in overcommit 'never'
mode with swap enabled. This also allowed the most memory to be allocated
to a user application.
Overcommit 'guess' mode without swap is a bad idea. It is easy to
crash the system. None of the other tested combinations crashed.
This matches my experience on the Roadrunner supercomputer.
Without the tunable user reserve, a system in overcommit 'never' mode
and without swap does not allow the admin to recover, although the
admin can.
With the new tunable reserves, a system in overcommit 'never' mode
and without swap can be configured to:
1. maximize user-allocatable memory, running close to the edge of
recoverability
2. maximize recoverability, sacrificing allocatable memory to
ensure that a user cannot take down a system
Test Description
Fedora 18 VM - 4 x86_64 cores, 5725MB RAM, 4GB Swap
System is booted into multiuser console mode, with unnecessary services
turned off. Caches were dropped before each test.
Hogs are user memtester processes that attempt to allocate all free memory
as reported by /proc/meminfo
In overcommit 'never' mode, memory_ratio=100
Test Results
3.9.0-rc1-mm1
Overcommit | Swap | Hogs | MB Got/Wanted | OOMs | User Recovery | Admin Recovery
---------- ---- ---- ------------- ---- ------------- --------------
guess yes 1 5432/5432 no yes yes
guess yes 4 5444/5444 1 yes yes
guess no 1 5302/5449 no yes yes
guess no 4 - crash no no
never yes 1 5460/5460 1 yes yes
never yes 4 5460/5460 1 yes yes
never no 1 5218/5432 no no yes
never no 4 5203/5448 no no yes
3.9.0-rc1-mm1-tunablereserves
User and Admin Recovery show their respective reserves, if applicable.
Overcommit | Swap | Hogs | MB Got/Wanted | OOMs | User Recovery | Admin Recovery
---------- ---- ---- ------------- ---- ------------- --------------
guess yes 1 5419/5419 no - yes 8MB yes
guess yes 4 5436/5436 1 - yes 8MB yes
guess no 1 5440/5440 * - yes 8MB yes
guess no 4 - crash - no 8MB no
* process would successfully mlock, then the oom killer would pick it
never yes 1 5446/5446 no 10MB yes 20MB yes
never yes 4 5456/5456 no 10MB yes 20MB yes
never no 1 5387/5429 no 128MB no 8MB barely
never no 1 5323/5428 no 226MB barely 8MB barely
never no 1 5323/5428 no 226MB barely 8MB barely
never no 1 5359/5448 no 10MB no 10MB barely
never no 1 5323/5428 no 0MB no 10MB barely
never no 1 5332/5428 no 0MB no 50MB yes
never no 1 5293/5429 no 0MB no 90MB yes
never no 1 5001/5427 no 230MB yes 338MB yes
never no 4* 4998/5424 no 230MB yes 338MB yes
* more memtesters were launched, able to allocate approximately another 100MB
Future Work
- Test larger memory systems.
- Test an embedded image.
- Test other architectures.
- Time malloc microbenchmarks.
- Would it be useful to be able to set overcommit policy for
each memory cgroup?
- Some lines are slightly above 80 chars.
Perhaps define a macro to convert between pages and kb?
Other places in the kernel do this.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: make init_user_reserve() static]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Shewmaker <agshew@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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When CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG=n, we don't want the memory-hotplug notifier
handlers to be included in the .o files, for space reasons.
The existing hotplug_memory_notifier() tries to handle this but testing
with gcc-4.4.4 shows that it doesn't work - the hotplug functions are
still present in the .o files.
So implement a new register_hotmemory_notifier() which is a copy of
register_hotcpu_notifier(), and which actually works as desired.
hotplug_memory_notifier() and register_memory_notifier() callsites
should be converted to use this new register_hotmemory_notifier().
While we're there, let's repair the existing hotplug_memory_notifier():
it simply stomps on the register_memory_notifier() return value, so
well-behaved code cannot check for errors. Apparently non of the
existing callers were well-behaved :(
Cc: Andrew Shewmaker <agshew@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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powerpc and x86 were opencoding copies of setup_nr_node_ids(), which
page_alloc provides but makes static. Make it avaliable to the archs in
linux/mm.h.
Signed-off-by: Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The sparse code, when asking the architecture to populate the vmemmap,
specifies the section range as a starting page and a number of pages.
This is an awkward interface, because none of the arch-specific code
actually thinks of the range in terms of 'struct page' units and always
translates it to bytes first.
In addition, later patches mix huge page and regular page backing for
the vmemmap. For this, they need to call vmemmap_populate_basepages()
on sub-section ranges with PAGE_SIZE and PMD_SIZE in mind. But these
are not necessarily multiples of the 'struct page' size and so this unit
is too coarse.
Just translate the section range into bytes once in the generic sparse
code, then pass byte ranges down the stack.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: Bernhard Schmidt <Bernhard.Schmidt@lrz.de>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Tested-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Particularly in oom conditions, it's troublesome that hugetlb memory is
not displayed. All other meminfo that is emitted will not add up to
what is expected, and there is no artifact left in the kernel log to
show that a potentially significant amount of memory is actually
allocated as hugepages which are not available to be reclaimed.
Booting with hugepages=8192 on the command line, this memory is now
shown in oom conditions. For example, with echo m >
/proc/sysrq-trigger:
Node 0 hugepages_total=2048 hugepages_free=2048 hugepages_surp=0 hugepages_size=2048kB
Node 1 hugepages_total=2048 hugepages_free=2048 hugepages_surp=0 hugepages_size=2048kB
Node 2 hugepages_total=2048 hugepages_free=2048 hugepages_surp=0 hugepages_size=2048kB
Node 3 hugepages_total=2048 hugepages_free=2048 hugepages_surp=0 hugepages_size=2048kB
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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On architectures where a pgd entry may be shared between user and kernel
(e.g. ARM+LPAE), freeing page tables needs a ceiling other than 0.
This patch introduces a generic USER_PGTABLES_CEILING that arch code can
override. It is the responsibility of the arch code setting the ceiling
to ensure the complete freeing of the page tables (usually in
pgd_free()).
[catalin.marinas@arm.com: commit log; shift_arg_pages(), asm-generic/pgtables.h changes]
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.3+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Now, vmap_area_list is exported as VMCOREINFO for makedumpfile to get
the start address of vmalloc region (vmalloc_start). The address which
contains vmalloc_start value is represented as below:
vmap_area_list.next - OFFSET(vmap_area.list) + OFFSET(vmap_area.va_start)
However, both OFFSET(vmap_area.va_start) and OFFSET(vmap_area.list)
aren't exported as VMCOREINFO.
So this patch exports them externally with small cleanup.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: vmalloc.h should include list.h for list_head]
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Kumagai <kumagai-atsushi@mxc.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Atsushi Kumagai <kumagai-atsushi@mxc.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Dave Anderson <anderson@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Although our intention is to unexport internal structure entirely, but
there is one exception for kexec. kexec dumps address of vmlist and
makedumpfile uses this information.
We are about to remove vmlist, then another way to retrieve information
of vmalloc layer is needed for makedumpfile. For this purpose, we
export vmap_area_list, instead of vmlist.
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Dave Anderson <anderson@redhat.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Atsushi Kumagai <kumagai-atsushi@mxc.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Now get_vmalloc_info() is in fs/proc/mmu.c. There is no reason that this
code must be here and it's implementation needs vmlist_lock and it iterate
a vmlist which may be internal data structure for vmalloc.
It is preferable that vmlist_lock and vmlist is only used in vmalloc.c
for maintainability. So move the code to vmalloc.c
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Atsushi Kumagai <kumagai-atsushi@mxc.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Dave Anderson <anderson@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Walking a bio's page mappings has proved problematic, so create a new
bio flag to indicate that a bio's data needs to be snapshotted in order
to guarantee stable pages during writeback. Next, for the one user
(ext3/jbd) of snapshotting, hook all the places where writes can be
initiated without PG_writeback set, and set BIO_SNAP_STABLE there.
We must also flag journal "metadata" bios for stable writeout, since
file data can be written through the journal. Finally, the
MS_SNAP_STABLE mount flag (only used by ext3) is now superfluous, so get
rid of it.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: rename _submit_bh()'s `flags' to `bio_flags', delobotomize the _submit_bh declaration]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: teeny cleanup]
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Commit abf09bed3cce ("s390/mm: implement software dirty bits")
introduced another difference in the pte layout vs. the pmd layout on
s390, thoroughly breaking the s390 support for hugetlbfs. This requires
replacing some more pte_xxx functions in mm/hugetlbfs.c with a
huge_pte_xxx version.
This patch introduces those huge_pte_xxx functions and their generic
implementation in asm-generic/hugetlb.h, which will now be included on
all architectures supporting hugetlbfs apart from s390. This change
will be a no-op for those architectures.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning]
Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> [for !s390 parts]
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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drop_caches.c provides code only invokable via sysctl, so don't compile it
in when CONFIG_SYSCTL=n.
Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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